Tag: Facebook

How Facebook Copes with 300 Million Users

By Erica Naone | 09/22/2009 | 5 Comments

VP of Engineering Mike Schroepfer reveals the tricks that keep the world's biggest social network going.

Privacy Plug-In Fakes out Facebook

By Robert Lemos | 09/09/2009 | 5 Comments

FaceCloak lets users hide sensitive updates from prying eyes, including Facebook's.

Antivirus Protection Gets Social

By Robert Lemos | 08/21/2009 | 0 Comments

Can cloud computing and social networking improve security software?

Cuil Tries to Rise Again

By David Talbot | 07/22/2009 | 1 Comment

Last year's "Google-killer" plans a comeback with social search.

The Web vs. the Republic of Iran

By Anne-Marie Corley | 06/18/2009 | 0 Comments

Twitter gives Iranians a voice, but the government still controls the Internet.

Social Networks Keep Privacy in the Closet

By Erica Naone | 06/11/2009 | 1 Comment

Economics may explain why it's so hard to find and configure privacy settings on many social networks.

Can't We All Just Get Along?

By Erica Naone | 12/18/2008 | 1 Comment

Competing attempts to unite people's online social networks may end up sowing more division.

McCain's Web Win

By David Talbot | 12/12/2008 | 2 Comments

Campaign strategists and Facebook's cofounder discuss the 2008 election.

Are Social Networks Sinking?

By Michael Fitzgerald | 12/10/2008 | 7 Comments

The economic downturn and uncertain business plans could result in an industry-wide shakeout.

Making Money from Social Ties

By Erica Naone | 09/18/2008 | 1 Comment

Advertisers are building complex applications to try to engage users on social networks.

"It's Not a Revolution if Nobody Loses"

By Emily Gould | 08/19/2008 | 2 Comments

A new age of "technological reproducibility" is here. Ugh.

Redesigning Facebook

By Erica Naone | 07/22/2008 | 0 Comments

A new look changes the game for third-party developers.

Social Networking Is Not a Business*

By Bryant Urstadt | 06/23/2008 | 10 Comments

Web 2.0--the dream of the user-built, user-centered, user-run Internet--has delivered on just about every promise except profit. Will its most prominent example, social networking, ever make any money?

How Facebook Works

By Alan Zeichick | 06/23/2008 | 2 Comments

The social network's technology manages a vast and rapidly expanding web of connections for its millions of users.

Who Owns Your Friends?

By Erica Naone | 06/23/2008 | 0 Comments

Social-networking sites are fighting over control of users' personal information.